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SALEM, Ore. - State Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, says she's creeped out by the video posted on YouTube of her doing chores around her home.

The anonymous poster wrote that Burdick lied about why she canceled a town hall on gun control at Portland State University.

KATU News asked Burdick Wednesday why she said there was a scheduling conflict when the video shows she stayed at home.

She said her office has been getting thousands of threatening and hostile emails about antigun bills.

She sent KATU News a few examples. One talked about lynching, another mentioned Hitler and Stalin. Burdick says it would have been foolish to hold a town hall in that kind of environment on a college campus.

"I've had town halls crashed by the extremist gun lobbyists before," she said. "They do not make life pleasant when they do that. They're disruptive and rude, and I didn't want to subject the students at Portland State to that kind of behavior."